"It sucks! It sends a terrible message!! It was so sad and dumb! There was no point to any of it!"
The point was that despite everything, despite c!Tommy having every right to continue hating and perpetuating the cycle because of all the hardships and trauma he went through.
Because it was his CHOICE to finally see c!Dream for what he was: a human being just like him. And to have compassion and empathy for who c!Dream used to be and what he had been turned unto.
It wasn't an obligation or something that NEEDED to happen. But it was something he chose to do despite all logic saying that he shouldn't.
It's not saying that it should be the norm in all cases where someone is harmed in some way. But it is showing who c!Tommy really is and the real compassion he truly has, despite the narrative of his continuous stuggle with choosing selfishness vs selflessness.
But c!Tommy saw, truly saw him for the first time and told him it wasn't too late to change. And c!Dream believed it for maybe even a moment, maybe it wasn't too late for him to change.
c!Tommy believing for just those last moments that c!Dream had the capacity to change. And that it still wasn't too late for him despite the horrors he'd committed himself to doing. When even c!Dream always knew what he himself was doing was awful, but he felt so cornered and alone as the story went on that he couldn’t see any other path to take. c!Dream had given up on being anything other than the monster everyone said he was.
But the saddest part about it was that it was too late. Because the nuke had already been launched.
being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five
Senpai says you’re welcome
holy shit
my poor heart
Posting this here too because it actually kills me but everytime arakawa draws alphonse doing this my heart breaks 5 million times over. it's just a really nice detail showing his age through body language and I really love it. It's also interesting in my opinion because he can't feel the cloth but he does it anyways because I'm assuming it was a nervous tic of his. Which makes me think more about how his whole situation works in terms of like proprioception and things that carried over from his human body like this nervous tic of his.
2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!
We’ll find you Amanda.
A continuation of me imagine how the hell does the golden guard uniform works. I watched a total of 6 videos about knights armor and this glorious post for reference and ho boy, there are a lot of straps and ribbons.
sending people wikipedia articles is my favorite form of humor. one time a long time friend of mine asked why i was using a different name and acting different i sent him the wikipedia page for DID. ryder just asked me why its 108 degrees in nevada right now and i sent him the wikipedia page for global warming and the season of summer.